Top seed Abhishek Agarwal did not have to exert too much to progress to semi-final round of the Men’s Top-8 event of the Rs 75,000 prize money JVPG-ISP Squash Championship, which is the 116th tournament to be organised by the Indian Squash Professionals (ISP). Agarwal called the shots and dominated the rallies against Akhilesh Yadav and coasted to a fluent 11-4, 11-2, 11-8 victory in a quarter-final match at the JVPG squash courts.
Abhishek Agarwal
Meanwhile in a keenly contested encounter, 4th seed Karan Mirchandani and 5th seed Sanjay C. Pawar were engaged in grim and engrossing battle before the former managed to script a 11-9, 11-9, 4-11, 6-11win and advance to the penultimate round.
In another closely fought quarter-final match, 6th seed Shashi Pandey did well to overcome Ashish Keskar in four games winning at 11-7, 11-2, 5-11, 11-6.
Results – Men’s Open (Quarter-finals): Pradeep Chaudhary bt 1-Samir Mistry 1-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-6; 4-Nilesh Pal bt Pintoo Rai 11-5, 11-4, 8-11, 13-11; 3-Anshul Goyal bt 6-Maunil Vora 11-3, 11-3, 11-7; 2-Ganesh Kadam bt Sandeep Vaman Parab 0-0 (retired).
Men’s Over 35 (Quarter-finals): 1-Amitpal Kohli bt Alok Taparia 11-3, 11-1, 11-6; Sachin Jadhav bt Rajesh Sonavane 11-3, 11-2, 11-9; 2-Anil Bhagat bt Prabkirat Sanghera 11-1, 11-7, 11-4; Panji Graninger bt Uday Mehra 13-11, 11-7, 11-4.
Men’s Top 8 (Quarter-finals): 1-Abhishek Agarwal bt 8-Akhilesh Yadav 11-4, 11-2, 11-8; 4-Karan Mirchandani bt 5-Sanjay C Pawar 11-9, 11-9, 4-11, 6-11; 6-Shashi Pandey bt Ashish Keskar 11-7, 11-2, 5-11, 11-6.
Men’s Doubles Handicap (Quarter-finals): Ansh Sheety /Ansh Punjabi bt Kishore Vanwari /Rajesh Rajani 15-11, 5-15, 15-10; Prashant More /Virendra Pawar bt Anshul Goyal /Dipesh Jadhav 15-12, 8-15, 15-8; Vijay Darak /Inderpal Singh bt Ajay Sheikh /Ramiz Mohd. 15-7, 15-13; Rohit Kadam /Bhavesh Shah bt Javed Mohd. /Pradeep Chaudhary 15-6, 15-7.
Doubles Top 8 (Quarter-finals): 1-Siddarth Samantray /Abhishek Agarwal bt 8-Akhilesh Yadav/Rahul Baitha 15-4, 17-14; 4-Sanjay Pawar/Samir Mistry bt 5-Ankita Sharma/Waqar Pathan 17-15, 15-8; 3-Sachin Jadhav/Amitpal Kohli bt 6-Jaisingh Thory/Ashish Keskar 15-13, 15-5; 7-Shashi Pandey/Shashi Suresh Pareek bt 2-Deepesh Borhade/Vijay Waghela 12-15 15-8 17-15.
7-Shashi Pandey/Shashi Suresh Pareek bt 2-Deepesh Borhade/Vijay Waghela 12-15 15-8 17-15.